In his decades in the academic film world as filmmaker, producer and executive, there seemingly wasn’t anyone William F. Deneen didn’t know personally. In his frank January 1997 discussion with Geoff Alexander, he bares all, including his days as a film smuggler, hiding from Burmese troops trying to kill him, battling with execs at Encyclopedia Britannica and his own Learning Corporation of America. In this no-holds-barred interview, he discusses early educational films at ERPI, execs Warren Everote, Milan Herzog, Maurice Mitchell and Ron Perelman, filmmakers Bert Salzman, Helen & Jean Secondari, film editor Grace Garland Janisz, and the travails of making mid-century films in Burma, Baffin Island and Mexico. He discusses his role as Executive Chief of Production of the TV Miniseries “Chiefs” (1983). For more on Bill Deneen, visit http://www.afana.org/deneen.htm

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